Moved to AWS

Feb 16

posted by Brian in ORM, JavaScript, jQuery, Railo | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

10 years a go I worked on a site for a local company. This month I officially am off that project. With that the server that the site was hosted on and this one as well will be going away.

With that I opted to move to Amazon Web Services EC2 server to host my blog and a couple of the other sites that I work on.

I am currently working on writing up the procedures I used to get every thing up and running on AWS. I am sure there are a few write ups on how to set up Apache + Railo + MySql on AWS but I hope to come from a plain ubuntu install to everything working together.

I also plan to being to post more with most of it being on the Jquery/Railo ORM side of things as I being working on a new project.

This entry was posted on February 16, 2012 at 6:07 AM and has received 363 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Endless scrolling with jQuery and Coldfusion using ORM

Apr 17

posted by Brian in ORM, JavaScript, jQuery, Railo, ColdFusion | 2 Comments Bookmark and Share

Been on Facebook, Twitter or any number of sites that loads data as you scroll? I would bet that most of you have. lets show you how to set up your site to load data inline while the user scrolls down the page.

The first steps is to get the initial set of data and a record count for the entire dataset that is going to be loaded up. This is pretty much standard Coldfusion nothing fancy.

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1<cfset numRecords = ormExecuteQuery("select count(*) as total from entries")>
2 <invalidTag>
3    //Will discuss the script section below.
4 </script>
5 <cfoutput>
6    <cfset entries = entityload("entries",{},{maxResults=10,offset=0})>
7        <div id="entries">
8            <cfloop array="#entries#" index="e">
9            <div class="entry">
10                <h3 class="title"><a href="#e.getUrl()#">#e.getTitle()#</a></h3>
11                <div class="content">#e.getContent()#</div>
12            </div>
13            </cfloop>
14        </div>
15 </cfoutput>

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This entry was posted on April 17, 2011 at 1:26 AM and has received 1401 views. There are currently 2 comments. Print this entry.

Auto Completing values from Multiselect Box

Apr 14

posted by Brian in JavaScript | 3 Comments Bookmark and Share

As Web Developer we are always striving to give our users an experiance that will make the technology they are using as transparent as possible. Not having to put a lot of thought into how to use the interfaces we create and just using that technology to interact with the web. As always there are those time where there is soo much information on a page or that the user has to interact with that things be come trouble some.

One of those areas is often the select box. Even though it has a nice tidy little package we as developers some time like to cram a little bit too much in there then add to that a user needing to select multiple values and you end up leaving the users to sort through a lot more information then is needed.

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This entry was posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:19 AM and has received 741 views. There are currently 3 comments. Print this entry.